Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-13
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

New Power Party Legislator Freddy Lim Wednesday called on the government to demarcate Taiwan’s territory in the South China Sea and abandon the U-shaped line that overlaps much of China’s so-called nine-dash line in order to effectively defend Taiwan’s sovereignty in the area in the aftermath of a high-profile ruling of a South China Sea arbitration case Tuesday.

An arbitral tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that China has no legal basis for claiming much of the South China Sea, therefore denying the nine-dash line China drafted to demarcate its claims to virtually the entire disputed region.

The tribunal said there was no evidence that China had historically exercised exclusive control over the waters or resources.

Lim asked Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lee in the Legislature whether Taiwan will still insist on a U-shaped line that highly overlaps China’s nine-dash line claim, which has just been denied by The Hague. He questioned if the claim is as ridiculous as Taiwan’s sovereignty claim of Outer Mongolia.     [FULL  STORY]